#pre release speculation

[tsubasakawanadefenseforce]

i finished my bingo card! inspiration taken directly from this post.

it’s mostly filled with things i’ve talked about already but there are a couple in here i haven’t shared yet. i do have an idea who i think the traitor could be but i don’t wanna say anything definitive. also i only realize now i think my grammar is completely shot but oh well.

text id under the cut

[id: a teal gradient 5 by 5 bingo board, titled “last bingo academy”. the options, ordered starting from the top left corner and going across each line, is as follows:

nozomi and kaura are somehow the same person

eito loses his mind and kills takumi in an ending

shouma survives over 50% of the endings

kurara face reveal BUT only in the harder to get endings

twins’ backstory involves watching their parents die

one of the students are working for the invaders

yugamu is not actually an assassin, just a chunni

kaura’s mom’s “research” is connected to hemoanima

tsubasa has a sprite/cg where she fully throws up

eito’s illness will prevent him from using hemoanima at one point

neither the lda or trc are simulations; both are real places

in order to get any Eito Yaoi Moments, you have to let nozomi die

People Die (Free Space)

takumi gets an “ultimate upgrade”

gaku dies in over 50% of the endings

darumi will be the most common perma-death for first time players

hiruko willingly sought out lda

there will be multiple endings where takumi dies but you continue playing as someone else

takumi can get multiple relationship teases depending on who he hangs out with

nigou and sirei fucking HATE each other

there will be bad/neutral endings that accounts for everyone being alive

takumi’s mom was aware of lda and knows where her son is

hemoanima will be revealed to be slowly corrupting/killing them

you will have to obtain multiple (5+) endings to reach the “golden”/best/canon ending

hemoanima originated from the invaders, humans cannot naturally use it

/end id.]

[silwer999]

I saw so many Bingos that I decided to make my own:

Links to every single bingo I found so far so you can have more bingo per bingo: Bingo, bingo, BINGO, bingO, BiNgO, bInGo, BingO

All squares are written up for ease of reading and with some commentary below the cut.

The characters are clones. The originals are safe in TRC.

Karua's mom is evil.

Burning Boy is Takumi from the future/different timeline. (Bro has an ahoge and eyes so so beautiful, just like Takumi; I rest my case)

There is something naturally special about the characters that lets them use hemoanima, and most other people wouldn't be able to use it.

Kako is more emotionally destroyed by Ima's death than he is by hers. (Unlikely, but I like reversals of character dynamics, and he seems more cynical than her)

Tsubasa hits someone with her car. (Aside from invaders, I assume she will hit invaders with her car during the fighting)

Characters will do something stupid/that they are too young for due to war-induced fear of death, like marriage, tattoo or trying for a baby. (I want a wedding CG!!!)

At least one character has important info they are not sharing cuz they think it is common knowledge. (Probably Shouma)

Nozomi is Karua's twin. (That's just a clone with less steps!?)

One of the characters is trans or knows a trans person in TRC. (Uchikoshi will deliver, I believe)

Hiruko has been negatively physically influenced due to fighting invaders before having hemoanima (This is assuming that she didn't have access to Hemoanima before LDA. I think she will be sick or weakened due to invaders' toxicity or something )

Sirei's death was a false flag operation to force non-fighters into compliance, and Eito was in on it. (My "Eito is sus" read is that he is Sirei's man on the inside, and the whole sceptic thing is an act)

Takumi fucks everyone(FREE SPACE) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Neither TRC nor LDA are in VR. They are real places.

TRCs are located somewhere in space, and LDA is on the original planet where things went wrong.

The Player never gets to see Kurara's face. (The characters can see it tho)

Revival machine mix-up resulting in body horror or comedy (Like body swap or body merge)

TRCs are each in separate dimension, and there is a dimensional portal in the school.

Nozomi is Karua's and Takumi's daughter from the future.

Shouma is faking having low self-esteem.

Ima goes catatonic and/or suicidal if Kako dies, and you can't use him or talk with him. (He may get revenge first and turn off after that tho)

Characters are stuck in an artificial time loop where every 100 days, their memory of fighting gets erased, and they start over.  

Due to timelines/time travel/other dimensional stuff everybody is related to everybody. (Either everybody is literally related to everybody, or every character is related to at least one other character)

Reference to Uchikoshi's/Kodaka's thing that is not that popular and/or well-known. (I wanted to put a particular Zero Escape reference here, but I see that some of you are playing that for the first time, so I changed it)

Karua will show up in LDA out of nowhere, desperate to find Takumi. (Inspired by that one Takumi is a damsel in distress post)

[hiruko-shizuhara]

hopping on the bingo thingo with only some shizuhara bias. some of them very likely to be true, some more fringe theories. i wish i could've included my silly theory that the reason why shizuhara hasn't been super negatively affected by hemoanima despite using it way longer than anyone else is somehow related to how she drinks alcohol underage. (like... it causes her kidneys to filter out and flush out more of the remaining hemoanima or something)

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Hiruko will be the first to be affected by the very negative effects of Hemoanima

Nozomi is a cyborg

Sirei/Nigou are the final bosses in some routes

SDU chosen because of their genetic code (hemoanima compatibility)

LDA students become the Undying Flames

Takumi dies / protag switch

Multiple sex CGs

Corrupted Hiruko boss battle

Eito is antagonist (w/ Hiruko), Nozomi is support

Students are all from different universes

Kurara covers her face because of insecurity about her appearance

Student other than Yugamu has committed murder before coming to LDA

Takumi remembers routes on repeat playthroughs

Undying flames made of human souls

If one student does too many Finishing Blows they're driven insane

Nozomi and Karua are the same person

At least one other canon gay character

Discussion of whether Yugamu still has his pea nits

Sirei treats corrupted students as unambiguous enemies

Nozomi dies in most 'happier' routes

Choice where you have to sacrifice half of the group

Hiruko dismisses concerns about negative effects of Hemoanima because she's experienced it all before

Protag self-sacrifice

Choice where Takumi is the only one left alive (sacrifices everyone else)

You can make a counter deal with the school invaders

[tsubasakawanadefenseforce]

i do like how some parts of lda are like so obviously anti-danganronpa. killing game? ‘course not, y’all are now comrades, teamwork is key! in fact, anyone who dies will be revived by us, and the game mechanics encourage you to sacrifice a team member to win! huh, trapped in a school? i mean, in the sense that home is miles away and you will be killed eventually if you try to run for it, but no we are giving you explicit tools to Leave and explore outside the school for supplies, hell a major story beat happens off of school grounds. plus, the school is very open! you’re not walled in with shudders over the screen, your dorms are literally on the roof, exposing you to a sun that you have never seen before as the sky goes up forever.

… actually, i wonder if we’ll explore the themes of suddenly being given access to an unfamiliar type of freedom instead of being trapped, like how i bet we’ll explore themes of teamwork in these battles instead of inherent distrust in a killing game.

[hiruko-shizuhara]

me when i. just fuckin die i guess

WAIT SHE'S IN HER CLASS ARMOUR

...is there any clear confirmation that the guys shown dead in their hemoanima class armour are permadead? (as i've sometimes seen assumed in fandom). or perhaps the tension comes from the fact that they were suddenly killed at all, e.g. something is stalking them, or the realisation that the death could have only been caused by another student, or their force is now hindered, or they split up and someone didn't come back to meet up with them and so they look for them and find something like this. just sayin'.

i still think they can perma-die when not hemoanima transformed (because the heart pumping is seen to be a vital part of transformation, so the infusers can be used as a defibrillator at best i think). but i think the jury's still out on if they can when transformed (unless the revive o-matic breaks)

[tsubasakawanadefenseforce]

eito’s skill names in english. WHICH COULD MEAN NOTHING.

[tsubasakawanadefenseforce]

god i wonder. i wonder i wonder i wonder if the pods darumi very obviously points out in the demo are a red herring. i’m sure they’ll be central to plenty of routes, but i so genuinely wonder if their purpose will change in a couple of routes, or turn out to be entirely irrelevant in at least one. they usually NEVER draw attention to stuff like that this quickly.

[tsubasakawanadefenseforce]

also we’re all in agreement that nozomi’s a robot right? like we don’t have to argue the specifics rn (i have my own theories) but she’s 100% a robot.